Weekly Gardening Thread (Catalog Fever) Vol. 1 Jan 6, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Seeds) Vol. 2, January 13, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 3, January 20, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (U.S. Hardiness Zones) Supplemental Vol. 1
Weekly Gardening Thread (Soil Types) Vol. 4, January 27, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 5, February 03, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation) Vol. 6, February 10, 2012
Weekly Gardening Thread (Vacation?) Vol. 7, February 17, 2012
I’m already planting in the garden here in Las Vegas. Some Early Girl tomatoes and an egg plant. My tomatoes don’t produce in the hot summers, so I’m trying to get an early and late crop this year. Not a lot, just like twn plants.
Home - fun to go on vacation - great to be home!
Two raised beds planted + a trench of purple potatoes.
Eleven to go - waiting for post fear of frost - early March here in Charleston.
Took delivery of eight 55 gallon barrels yesterday - should make for a great rain collection system. $20 each = $15 delivery.
About to order some fruit trees and last orders of seeds.
Thanks for the great weekly gardening thread.
Garden on!
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The wrath of G-d isn't always 'fire and brimstone'.
Broccoli, 'colored' cauliflower, and 'colored' peppers chugging right along...tomatoes going in over the next few days. As an experiment, I sowed lettuce seeds into one of those store 'clamshells' filled with 'Pro-Mix'. It is coming up just fine...we'll have fresh lettuce on the table in no time.
I have two very enthusiastic Bonnie ‘Tami G’ grape tomatoes in the whiskey barrel on the deck that already have set two fruit in a 10-fruit cluster, and two Bonnie Goliath that are doing the same thing.
Last years’ drought drove the deer to we lakefront people’s yards so I’m not risking ground plantings. It all has to grow in containers in the high winds on the deck. Not going to be a very experimental year, I need yields.
Back here in Teaxs, I had my soils anylasis translated to English for me and I am about to till the patch along with some nitro and calcium. The ext serv said it was luck that anything grew here last year! I had no nitrogen and low PH.
I have about 200 tomato babies about 2 1/2 --3in tall and a few hot chili peppers about an inch tall. I hope to supply all my neighbor gardeners with seedlings this year. I can only use about 10-12 plants myself. I got the tiller running the other day, so now its just me holding up the tilling, scheduled for tomorrow am.
Yeaaahhhh...Glad to see this thread this morning!
We had a very warm day here in Middle Tennessee yesterday so I spent the entire day outside. I did some much needed cleaning in the garden and planted lettuce and kale.
I DO have a question. I would like to plant two hazelnut (filburt)bushes. What varieties would be best for Tennessee? Anyone know?
I am putting out the arugula, spinach, and kale this weekend. My garlics are starting to sprout. I have some good sized indoor rosemary, flat leaf parsley, and mint that I am going to try and transplant in about six weeks.
Our ducklings are growing and developing their tail feathers. We had a problem with one of the hens. She appeared to be in distress, unable to eat or drink and was noticably smaller than the other five. I held her while Barb gently massaged her throat. Then she fed her a vinigar/water solution from an eyedropper. Later, she was eating normally, but her crop was distended. Barb did a lookup on the web and then had be hold her again while she used a makeup spatula to put cat hairball medication in her bill. Chased it with the water solution again. The next morning, she was lively and normal. She seems to have caught up with the rest of her brood mates in size. They are now in the X-pen and are about 1/3 grown.
My Sears Craftsman GT5000 garden tractor is here! The mowing deck is enormous, and the Johnny Bucket and Plow is enroute via UPS! I am already thinking about an electric assist sleeve hitch for it to handle a box scraper and cultivator. The garden isn't going to know what hit it!
Planted 40 starts the other day, a little early for my area of Ohio but couldn’t wait. So anxious for spring.
We just got our seeds ordered this week and are impatiently awaiting their arrival. We’re fairly new to gardening and are praying we don’t mess this up! I’m in KC and am beginning to panic a bit about not having anything started. This year is going to be trial and error for us.
Does anyone here have any knowledge/advice on the 4-in-1 fruit trees? We were considering purchasing an apple tree that grows four different kinds of apples but are a bit leery. We’re here for a limited time so do want to purchase an older tree that is already producing fruit.
We just got our seeds ordered this week and are impatiently awaiting their arrival. We’re fairly new to gardening and are praying we don’t mess this up! I’m in KC and am beginning to panic a bit about not having anything started. This year is going to be trial and error for us.
Does anyone here have any knowledge/advice on the 4-in-1 fruit trees? We were considering purchasing an apple tree that grows four different kinds of apples but are a bit leery. We’re here for a limited time so do want to purchase an older tree that is already producing fruit.
Welcome home!!!!
The weather on my tiny finger of the Virginia Eastern Shore is absolutely WHACKED. It’s unbelievable. It is actually warmer outside than it is in the house. It was 70 degrees at 10am and there is a strong probability for tornadoes this afternoon. It’s no wonder so many people I know are sick. There is no rhyme nor reason to this weather.
Got my second garden plot cleaned and tilled yesterday. I had already started some turnips and onions in part of it and they are doing great. I still have three parsley plants from last year.
My other garden has lettuce, shallots, spinach that are producing well, I need to cut the lettuce soon. I have several garlic plants that are going strong.
The three inch rain sure helped ground moisture but not the lakes. Lake Travis - our main water source - is over 50 feet low and has less than 35% capacity.
OK, what I’m doing - fist time gardener here though I did work on a vegetable farm as a teenager for a couple of summers. I picked up a bunch of seeds this week to start indoors mid / late March for mid May planting.
We’re located on the South Shore south of Boston, newly zoned 6B but will stick to the 6A schedule. I’ll be ordering deer & orchard fencing tomorrow and might even start putting up some posts this weekend to keep the deer out.
Do you know a source for soil testing strips? (PH N P K)